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mol JUPITERSANGELS Follow ) 、/ sleepovers when i was 8: let's do the blindfold makeup challenge!! sleepovers now: we are all irrelevant if you think about it. 1:33 PM-14 Jan 2018

Joel Aplin @aesthetic_99 Follow Sleepovers when I was 12: Spare bed, hundreds of pillows, massive blankets, more junk food then you could wish for. Sleepovers now: Sleep on half a sofa, have to use your sock as a blanket, allowed one piece of cereal before bed, always wake up hungover & broke as f---. 3:43 PM-25 Jan 2018

sans sheriffs @selfpwner Follow sleepovers when I was small: there's so much I'll never know... is Love real? Is Truth? Is my nature wicked? sleepovers now: metaphysics? Imao you're f------ drunk bro 2:30 PM-12 Jan 2018

Son of a Twitch< Follow @Twitchofthewest Sleepover then: hehehe okay guys who farted Sleepovers now: ALYSSA STOP THATS YOUR 8TH SHOT danny devito @lusxt sleepovers when ur small: omg stop laughing and go to sleep u guys!! sleepovers now: i don't think i'm capable of love Show this thread

kal @KalJoBro Follow sleepovers in elementary school: who wants to do makeovers?! sleepovers now: who wants alcohol poisoning?! 6:24 PM-12 Jan 2018

Nina la Cochina @goawaynina Follow ) Sleepovers in middle school: first one to fall asleep gets ice down their back! Sleepovers now: flashbacks of my childhood trauma keep me up at night so now l take melatonin pills danny devito @lusxt sleepovers when ur small: omg stop laughing and go to sleep u guysl! sleepovers now: i don't think i'm capable of love Show this thread

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Sleepovers Now refers to a snowclone popular on Twitter in which a person compares the lighthearted gaiety of sleepovers from their youth to the more morbid topics broached during sleepovers had in older age.

Origin

On January 10th, 2018, Twitter user @lusxt^[1] posted a viral tweet which read: "sleepovers when ur small: omg stop laughing and go to sleep u guys!! sleepovers now: i don't think i'm capable of love." The tweet gained over 95,000 retweets and 341,000 likes (shown below).

danny devito @lusxt Follow sleepovers when ur small: omg stop laughing and go to sleep u guys!! sleepovers now: i don't think i'm capable of love 8:14 PM-10 Jan 2018

Spread

Over the course of the following few weeks, the tweet became a template in which other users posted variations with other grim topics broached at older-age sleepovers. Early examples include tweets by @shrimpnosebeats^[2] and @Dylan4Prez_^[3] (shown below).

Follow @shrimpnosebeats sleepovers when ur small: hey my mom said we have to sleep! she's bringing us to chuck e cheese in the morning! sleepovers now: haha hey do you know what day it is? on Saturday my mom is bringing me to buy me some groceries. All I've eaten today is cheeto dust and oreo stuffing. 5:13 PM 11 Jan 2018

Dylan Smith @Dylan4prez Follow Sleepovers as a kid: "Guys please stop laughing I have to wake up early tmrw for my baseball game!" Sleepovers as a teen: "guys I think she likes me" Sleepovers now: “my inability to love and socialize corrupts me with darkness at night" 7:32 PM -11 Jan 2018

Other popular tweets include a tweet by @graysons__abs^[4] which gained over 70 retweets and 390 likes (shown below, left). Another by @void_daddy_^[5] gained 18 retweets and 116 likes (shown below, right).

Alessandra @graysons abs Followv Sleepovers when you're young,'omg the cute guy smiled at me in class today!' 'stop laughing & to sleep hehe' Sleepovers now: ‘I don't think I'm capable of love. I mean l'm mentally dating too many celebrities, like how are normal boys meant to match up? I'm becoming a cat lady' 10:52 PM-25 Jan 2018

Augh dealerA @void_daddy Follow sleepovers when u were 9: -omg make out w/this pillow!!! sleepovers now: -l mean maybe it's just unresolved trauma but idk if im capable of romantic love 4:25 PM-13 Jan 2018

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^[1] Twitter – @lusxt

^[2] Twitter – @shrimpnosebeats

^[3] Twitter – @Dylan4Prez_

^[4] Twitter – @graysons__abs

^[5] Twitter – @void_daddy_

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